Scientific classification

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Thamnophilidae

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Recent phylogenetic studies#R#R#R have led to internal clarification of family and its division into two subfamilies, Thamnophilinae and Myrmornithinae; subsequent work has erected a third, Euchrepomidinae (see below, Euchrepomis).

Subfamily: Thamnophilinae

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Recent phylogenetic studies#R#R#R have led to distribution of taxa included herein into five tribes, Microrhopiini, Formicivorini, Thamnophilini, Pithyini and Pyriglenini.

Tribe: Pithyini

Genus:Gymnopithys Bonaparte, 1857

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See Phaenostictus (above). Until recently, included taxa now placed in Oneillornis (see above).